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Re: you think the US is bad? you guys are privacy junkies!
From: Thomas Carlsson <thomas () carlsson fm>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:18:50 +0000
Gadi Evron wrote:
A very rare eavesdropping case related to Sampo bank
> was reported in Finland today. [...]
Seven out of 30 offices in the capital district of
> Finland, recorded customer conversations at the tellers’ > desks.As the resident Finn and sal-ammoniac candy eater, let me elaborate a little on this. Specifically, discussions which pertained to loan applications were surreptitiously recorded. Although Sampo bank has asserted that the accompanying recordings were destroyed shortly after a loan negotiation took place (in a subsequent supervisor-trainee review), the financial information supplied by individuals in such conversations can be quite sensitive (and hence the gravity of the public's concern when the news broke out).
Best Regards, Thomas -- Thomas M. Carlsson Researcher/Consultant e-mail: thomas () carlsson fm Public PGP key: http://www.beige.org/pgp.txt _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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